Round 5: Tossup 10

This leading man parodied many of his films in the 1968 action comedy Kill!. A freeze-frame on this actor ends a 1966 film whose most famous shot depicts him center-frame, facing away from the camera in front of the corpses of men he killed in a forest. A character played by this actor smiles after suddenly tossing several clumps of hair in front of some men, who later shoot him to death after he destroys an empty (15[1])suit of armor. (15[1])In the first of three films subtitled No Greater Love, Road to Eternity, and A Soldier’s Prayer, a character played by this star of (*) Sword (-5[1])of Doom tries to abate the abuse of prisoners at a mine (10[1])in Manchuria. The gun-toting gangster (10[1])in Yojimbo was played by this actor, whose best-known lead role was a samurai who asks a clan to help him commit seppuku. For 10 points, name this star of Masaki Kobayashi’s Human Condition trilogy and Harakiri. (10[1])■END■

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